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Student-Centered Learning Addressing Faculty Questions about Student-Centered Learning Jeffrey Froyd, Nancy Simpson Texas A&M University What is meant by Student-Centered Learning (SCL)? A variety of phrases have been coined to describe a critical shift in mission and purpose of higher education. Barr and Tagg (1995) expressed the change as a move from an Instruction Paradigm in which universities delivered instruction to transfer knowledge from faculty to students to a Learning Paradigm in which universities produce Learning through student discovery and construction of knowledge. Huba and Freed (2000) used the phrase Learning - centered assessment to emphasize transition in the focus of instruction and assessment from teaching to Learning . The following description of Student-Centered instruction provides another starting point for conversations about Student-Centered Learning : Student-Centered instruction [SCI] is an instructional approach in which students influence the content, activities, materials, and pace of Learning .

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